Category:My Purports (Prabhupada)
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda's purports to the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā are the lifeblood of his teachings, offered as a labor of immense love and dedication to his disciples and the world. He stayed awake through the night to meticulously translate and explain this deep philosophy, viewing it not as a chore but as an essential service to his guru. For his followers, these purports are the ultimate blueprint for spiritual realization and preaching; by simply reading, assimilating, and reproducing his clear, practical explanations, anyone can become a perfect instrument for spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness and ultimately attain God realization.
- A Herculean Task of Devotion: Śrīla Prabhupāda engaged in the monumental effort of writing his Bhaktivedānta purports, driven by pure devotion and the order of his spiritual master, sacrificing his sleep to give this knowledge to humanity.
- The Perfect Preaching Formula: He assured his disciples that by simply memorizing, cramming, and reproducing his purports verbatim, anyone could become a highly effective and first-class speaker.
- Assimilating the Knowledge: Followers are urged to diligently read the purports, digest the profound philosophy, and present it in their own words to genuinely understand and share the teachings.
- The Guarantee of Perfection: The comprehensive presentation of the verses and purports is designed so perfectly that by deeply studying them, one is assured to become a fully God-realized soul.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda's Bhaktivedānta Purports - A Guide for All.
Pages in category "My Purports (Prabhupada)"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, completed on November 10, 1974, at the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, Hare Krishna Land, Juhu, Bombay
- By Krsna's will, I am (Prabhupada) now residing at the Los Angeles Temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. This purport is finished today, the 30th of June, 1969
- By Krsna's will, I am now residing at the Los Angeles temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. This purport (on Sri Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu) is finished today, the 30th of June, 1969
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- First of all let us offer our respectful obeisances unto our spiritual master by whose order I am engaged in this herculean task of writing commentary on the Srimad-Bhagavatam as the Bhaktivedanta purports
- For lecturing, any one of our members can speak. Simply one has to memorize the purports and then speak in one's own language
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- Hear and repeat, hear and repeat. You haven't got to manufacture. Any one of us, simply if you reproduce the purport which I have given in the Bhagavata, you become a good speaker
- Here in Los Angeles I have so many tapes of my singing prayers, chanting new tunes of Hare Krishna, playing mrdanga, and purports to prayers
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- I am sorry that many of the important verses in Bhagavad-gita As It Is were left without purport explanations, but the MacMillan Company wanted to minimize the volume of the book. I am not satisfied with this
- I desire to publish the GITA according to the original manuscript. In this expanded version, each verse is authoritatively presented with the Devanagari script, roman transliteration, English synonyms, translation and elaborate purport
- I have protested this false God consciousness in all my purports. That is my business, to punish all these rascals
- I think Acyutananda Swami, he is a very good preacher. The process is simply to read the books and learn the purports and then speak to them in your own words
- I'm writing books. I'm not being forced by anyone. Everyone can do that. Why one doesn't do it? Why I get up at night - 1 AM, & do this job? Because I cannot do without it. How one will do it artificially? This is quality. Therefore they like my purports
- If you simply reproduce verbatim the purports which I have given in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, and chant Hare Krishna with ecstasy, that will be sufficient for your preaching work
- In all of my (Prabhupada's) other books - Srimad Bhagavatam, Sri Isopanisad, etc. - the system is that I give the original verse, its English transliteration, word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents, translations and purports. BG 1972 Preface
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- The factual propounder of Vedanta philosophy is a Krsna conscious person who always engages in reading and understanding the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam and teaching the purport of these books to the entire world
- The purport is that in the Kali-yuga, the government men, they will be all rogues and thieves. So the citizens also follow them
- The reading matter of Srimad-Bhagavatam is so arranged with its original Sanskrit text, its English transliteration, synonyms, translation and purports so that one is sure to become a God-realized soul at the end of finishing the first nine cantos
- The Supreme Lord is always the Supreme, and as we have tried to establish many times in these purports, no living being, even up to the standard of Brahma, can claim to be one with the Lord
- They should read our Bhagavatam. The purports are there: They should assimilate them in their own words in a literary career
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- You have suggested that you print in ZZG simply the verses of Bhagavad-gita, but without the purport what is the meaning of the verses? The purport is actually the main thing
- You have very diligently collected all the purports in Srimad-Bhagavatam and have presented very nicely our missionary activities, especially in reference to religion, politics, and sociology
- You read every sloka, every mantra. Whenever you get time, you read the purport, you read the meaning. The whole philosophy is there. Now you are growing. There will be so many questions, so many philosophers